Small talk

Walking the nightly streets of Gra’akast, Alexis had just been soaking the lively atmosphere.
After all the lonely brooding over ancient secrets and lost history, just being among people felt as nourishing to her spirit as some food and drink other than rations would hopefully be for her body.

It had been an ample reminder that beyond the faceless descriptor of ‘Ozainae’, beyond differing cultures and beliefs, these were, in the end, just people. Living their best life, just like anywhere else. She wondered if they would think so, too, if they ever wandered the streets of Ostiarium without hate tinting their view.

Gonyaul would probably say something along the lines that if people would focus more on what they had in common rather than what sat them apart, there would be less fighting.
Maybe. But unfortunately, it simply wasn’t to be. Otherwise, people like her, warriors, probably wouldn’t exist.

She chased away those dark thoughts for now, enjoying some peace while it lasted. It never did for long. Not for her.

It was a shame her grasp on the language was slipping now that she was not actively chasing the shaft. Quite conditional, those ‘gifts’. Figured. But it wasn’t fully gone and she hoped it would get her through the night, at least. Maybe, come tomorrow, if there was still some left, she could write down what she remembered? Some living language for a change, not only age-old inscriptions. Yeah, she might like that.

Alexis grew a bit worried as the young man boldly decided to join her table. Her eyes were peculiar, she knew. Rare, even back home, though she had been told her grandfather’s were like that, too. Something that ran in the family. But among Helians they didn’t seem to invoke quite as much fascination as they did around here. And they did mark her as an outsider, unfortunately.

But the young man didn’t seem hostile, quite the contrary, at least for now. So she decided to answer, albeit guardedly.

“Thank you.”
She said cautiously, looking back at him.

“Far and wide, you say. Like where?”